Communication
I’m not married. Even when I was married, I wasn’t really married.
I do watch a lot of movies and TV shows. Generally most of their problems can be solved via communication. Is this lack of communication just faked for the effect or do couples actually operate this way ?
Example: 40 year old couple, married for 15-20 years, one teenager one almost teen, woman gets knocked up ….. is each honest about what they want ? Do you tell the partner what you think they want to hear, or do you tell them what you feel ?
What secrets do you keep ? When you were just married, what secrets did you keep ?
I Really Didn’t Need to Know….
…..that Al Gore is a “crazed sex poodle”.
…..that a former (and there’s a reason for her being “former”) stripper is attempting to rip off the Naked Cowboy.
…..that weight gain is problematic in lemurs.
…..that George Soros now believes he is in charge of the EMU.
…..that the guy who helped eradicate smallpox from the world is predicting humanity’s extinction. Thanks a heap.
…..that the Zombie Apocalypse started, and apparently it was fake. Fucker….
…..that there is a tarantula cocktail. No, really.
…..that there is an Helen Thomas Award for journalistic excellence. No, really.
You’re welcome 
Random Drive-Bys
GREETINGS FROM THE RANDOM STUFF GENERATOR
Prez Obama has been rather stoic when it comes to the oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, the high unemployment, the battle to secure the borders, the economy…. but a Rolling Stone article on General McChrystal which criticizes our Ear Leader sends him into spittles of fury. I guess he found the ass that needed kicking.
Once you take the step to informally declare your city a “sanctuary” city, you should be prepared for the consequences. The city of Maywood, CA, will be laying off all city employees and dismantling their police department, choosing to save money by contracting all services to L.A. and Bell. This should come as no surprise to the council, seing as 50% of the 97% “Latino” population of the town is “undocumented” *spit*.
The Federal government has decided to ban the the dredging of sand to build berms to block the oil. Their reason: F&W is concerned about the ecological impact. I guess the morons were absent from school the day they covered oil spills in Ecology 101, and don’t watch any Dawn dishwashing liquid commercials.
Over at the Puffy Ho, we have Frank Schaeffer calling for the “eradication” of fundamentalist religions. And by “fundamentalist religions” he means Christianity and Judaism. He says, “the [Holy] Bible is nuts in many places. Who follows this stuff? No one!”, which should come as a surprise to the 76% of Americans that consider themselves Christian. I suppose he got fed up with Christians strapping bombs and going splodey in marketplaces.
Over Down Under, Australian Prime Minister Kevin “I’m a Leftist Tool” Rudd called for a leadership vote after his deputy PM Julia “I’m a Bigger Leftist Tool” Gilliard challenged him for the leadership of the government. This comes right before the G 20 meeting in Canada, and a few months before the Australian national elections. It’s a Celebrity Deathmatch, and the loser will be Australia.
And lastly, Prez Obama finally found something that was “less offensive” than the bust of Sir Winston Churchill that he packed off to the British Embassy. As Hank Scorpio replied when he saw it:
Well, it’s accurate. Shit floats.
Y’all have a great week
How stupid do you have to be to be ‘suprised’ ?
One thing that really gets me pissed off is these motherfuckers crying about how they had no idea Obama was a socialist boob.
This guy has a better way with words than I:
Listen up, you punked, chumped boobs: We looked at Obama not through your rose colored hallucinations, but through the cold, clear spectacles of reality. None of what he’s done since has surprised us one bit. In fact, many of us, myself included, predicted it even before his coronation by people like you. Yes, it’s nice that after a year and a half of horrible examples, the truth about him is finally beginning to penetrate your skulls. But why, for the love of god, couldn’t you see it at the beginning, when it was no less obvious, but your understanding of it might have done some good?
Abuse of a law in Texas
Public Intoxication. It doesn’t mean what you think it does. It doesn’t even mean what most police officers think it does. It is probably the most misused and abused laws in the state of Texas.
On another blog somewhere (don’t recall where) on a discussion of Texas law a commenter mentioned that you can be arrested for being drunk in a bar. In a way this is true. In practice it is even more true. However, it generally isn’t legal.
So here it is. Section 49.02 of the Texas Penal Code.
Sec. 49.02. PUBLIC INTOXICATION. (a) A person commits an offense if the person appears in a public place while intoxicated to the degree that the person may endanger the person or another.
(a-1) For the purposes of this section, a premises licensed or permitted under the Alcoholic Beverage Code is a public place.
(b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the alcohol or other substance was administered for therapeutic purposes and as a part of the person’s professional medical treatment by a licensed physician.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (e), an offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
(d) An offense under this section is not a lesser included offense under Section 49.04.
(e) An offense under this section committed by a person younger than 21 years of age is punishable in the same manner as if the minor committed an offense to which Section 106.071, Alcoholic Beverage Code, applies.
Ok this bit “For the purposes of this section, a premises licensed or permitted under the Alcoholic Beverage Code is a public place.” pretty well means any place that can sell alcohol. It just specifies that bars are included in “public”.
The important bit is this:
A person commits an offense if the person appears in a public place while intoxicated to the degree that the person may endanger the person or another.
Read that. Read it again. One more time. All of Texas law is written pretty much the same. “A person commits an offense if ….“. Everything after the if is what I was taught in the police academy as “elements of the offense”. A person has to meet all of the elements of an offense to be deemed “committing” the offense.
Police in Texas tend to ignore the bold part. The bold part is actually the more important part of the law.
The intent of the Public Intoxication law in Texas is NOT to outlaw being drunk in a public place. The intent is to protect the drunk and those around the drunk. Simply put, if you are not posing a danger to yourself or others, YOU ARE NOT COMMITTING PUBLIC INTOXICATION.
If you are not exhibiting behavior that could lead a police officer to believe that you pose a danger to yourself or others … YOU ARE NOT BREAKING THE LAW!
If you are arrested for Public Intoxication in Texas the one question you should be asking the arresting officer in court is, “What about my behavior that day/night led you to believe I posed a danger to myself or others?”
This does not get near enough attention. Calls/letters could even be written to your local police chief or district attorney pointing this out and asking why so many unlawful arrests are allowed under this statute.
One last note: No, I did not get arrested for Public Intoxication. This is just a pet peeve of mine.
source: Texas Statutes website.
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste….
….unless you need a vacation. At least, according to the administration. The Prez is spending Memorial Day weekend in Chicago:
The news that President Barack Obama and his family will return to Chicago for the Memorial Day weekend has triggered a guessing game.Where will they dine? What will they do for fun? With the Sox on the road and the Blackhawks skating into the Stanley Cup finals, might the first family ditch its predictable pastimes — basketball, golf and tennis — and go to the United Center for hockey?
Yes, you read that right: he is skipping Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. It’s rather odd how the media is silent on the fact that this is his second vacation in as many months, and by “odd” I mean “expected.” Personally, I’m glad he won’t be sullying the memory of those interred at Arlington with his presence (and I want him to attend the Blackhawks game. I want to see those motherpussbuckets crash and burn, but I digress). But as CiC, it is his job to be there. As a way of placating those who know what Memorial Day stands for, he will be participating at a ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, south of Chicago, leaving VP Biden to do the honors at Arlington.
It must be extremely exhausting watching the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, bashing Arizona, redistributing income, watching the Dow take a dive, and trying to appease every tinpot ruler in the world. So many crises to choose from, and so little time….
Neil Stevens is wrong.
From Redstate.com:
It doesn’t even cross their minds that we might ask Google not to build the database to begin with, because it’s a basic law of databases that they can always be put to another purpose.
I can’t argue with the sentiment. Google creeps me out more every day. The problem is that Redstate.com uses Google Analytics. They effectively tell Google every time you visit their site.
When this is pointed out by commenters, the response is .. well,
You are spreading outright falsehoods through your repeated assertion that the data we’re talking about is from httpd logs.
And combined with your radical pacifist ranting before, I’ve had it with you.
Hit the contact form if you feel you’ve been wronged.
and …
You can’t be this stupid
…
I’d rather everyone get along, but I’ll settle for everyone united in hating me for being a jerky moderator.
Sorry, Neil, you are the moron here. Here’s the thing: Webserver logs tell me an awful lot about what goes on here. Once you leave my site I’ve no idea where you go or what you do. Now, if everyone hands this data over to a single entity (Google in this case), then they can plot your course across the internet. Enough logs and they can tell, when and where you work, where you live, given enough data they could tell you what time you take lunch.
The reason server logs are not dangerous is NOT because there’s not enough information in them, it is because the information is split up amongst thousands of different places.
In the interest of full disclosure, I used Google Analytics here for a few days. It made me feel dirty so I removed it. I use Awstats.
Where are we going ?
… and why are we in this handbasket ?
Drop the Weapon! Drop the Weapon! *BANG*
From Gothamist:
Just how little tolerance is zero tolerance? A Staten Island fourth-grader was reprimanded and almost suspended yesterday when the principal spotted him playing with a LEGO policeman and a two-inch-long toy gun during lunch, the Advance reports.
Under the city’s no-tolerance policy regarding guns in schools, PS 52 Principal Evelyn Matroianni brought 9-year-old Patrick Timoney to her office and called his mother to say the boy might be suspended for carrying the miniature toy gun to school, pending the approval of the Department of Education’s security administrator. When contacted, the administrator reportedly said the toy should be confiscated and returned to the boy’s parents, however no other punishment would be necessary.
How much would you pay for this kinda crazy ? Wait, don’t answer yet, there’s more …
From the NYDailyNews:
A Michigan kindergartener’s make-believe gun – which he created with just his fingers – got him suspended, the Grand Rapids Press reported.
Mason Jammer, 6, who attends Ionia’s Jefferson Elementary School, pointed his finger-gun at a fellow student Wednesday and got kicked out of school till Friday.
School officials said they had given Mason numerous warnings over several months, and his gun play created discomfort for other kids.
Now how much would you pay ? If you order this insanity in the next 5 minutes we’ll throw in this beautiful piece of shit:
a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises,” the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.
Sometimes its hard to even joke about this shit.
Star Trek
Stolen from ClamBake 6′s site:
I’m a big fan of all things Star Trek. Yes great fun has been made of the bad special effects and the mostly bad acting, but Star Trek really was/is an important work. Generally, I equate TV or movies to photographs or paintings but some some television shows or movies equate more to the level of literature. I’m not saying Star Trek was great writing or acting, but taken as a whole work I will say that it is important to human culture as any piece of literature. I could mention the race/ethnicity/nationality of the crew as example of its importance as most people do. I could mention the importance of such a ‘positive’ science fiction television show aired as it was during the Space Race. But I won’t (although I sorta just did).
People
I try to be a nice person, I really do. People make it awful hard sometimes.
People suck. Your average person is a decent enough fellow, but people … well, they suck.
The hardest part about getting along in society is trying to not treat a person like you’d treat people. As hard as it is sometimes, you have to treat every person as an individual. A completely new encounter.
…
I’m not explaining this right at all. No matter how many people blow right past you when you hold a door for them, never expect the next person to do the same. That 1 in 100 is maybe going to say ‘Thank You’ (rare these days, I know), but more importantly that 1 in 100 might think, just somewhere in the back of his mind, ‘Not everyone’s a dick.’ No matter how shitty a day you’ve had, no matter how pissed off you are that the guy in line ahead of you has 35 items in the fucking express lane you truly have to give your best effort to not lump everyone you meet in with the assholes.
In a way, this is very much the same phenomena as racism. I mean, racism is essentially expecting every member of a race to behave in a certain way. It is just as easy, or hell, even easier, to expect ever person to act the same as every other asshole you’ve ran across today.
I can’t honestly suggest that you treat every individual you encounter in the course of your day equally as if you’ve not encountered any number of assholes before but in the interest of civility I ask that you try. I try. I don’t always succeed and I often find myself being someone else’s asshole but I do try. I suggest you do the same.
You should not read this as a plea to everyone to be a doormat. I’m suggesting no such thing. If some asshole knocks into you in his hurry to get who-gives-a-shit-where and you feel the need to say, “Hey, fuckstick, watch where you’re walking.” by all means, let loose. All I’m suggesting is to not be the first asshole.
When I was in the police academy (yeah, there’s a bit of personal history) we were taught to always let the other guy dictate your behavior. Essentially, this means that you approach every encounter at a normal human polite level of behavior and you leave it to the other guy to decide whether or not you’ll get nicer or turn into a complete dick that just beat him senseless.
This really turned into a whole lot more of a ramble than I first intended.
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